Dear colleagues
With the growing interest in community unionism you may be interested in
the following event I am helping to organise...see attached programme's.
Jane
*Invitation to community conference and community film festival*
Organised by Hackney Unites, a broadbased community coalition, the
community conference on *Saturday 5 June*, ‘Celebrate Hackney’ is going
to be fantastic where Hackney’s communities will come together to
discuss and debate issues of concern, to make new friends and to have
some fun. The event has been greeted with such enthusiasm from so many
corners of our communities that we have had to hire additional space
from the school to accommodate it.
The day will begin at 10am, and there will be a series of meetings,
films, performances and discussions. The day will finish at 4.30pm. It’s
free, it’s at Stoke Newington School & Sixth Form: Media Arts & Science
College, Clissold Road, London N16 9EX
There will be *15 workshop sessions running* (five at any one time - see
below). There will be a mini-fill festival, and there will be
performance. We anticipate over 30 stalls, a children’s adventure room,
and some fantastic food (from Yum Yum, Café Z and ‘vegan peasant’).
Held less than a month after the general election, the day will be our
response to the growing threat of the far right and their politics of
hatred and division, showing that in Hackney, our communities can work
together and have fun while doing it.
The day will also provide an opportunity to discuss how we will respond
to anticipated cuts (expected whoever wins the election) in public
services: housing, nurseries, health and education. Finally, it will be
an opportunity to enjoy films made on our estates by young and old about
their lives and their concerns.
To ensure that people in Hackney know of this fantastic event, we have
produced an 8 page tabloid programme (thanks to HOPE not hate for their
collaboration on this). We have had 50,000 of these printed and
distributed these to half of the households in the borough.
You can help make this great day a success in several ways.
Sign up for the event: the event will be free, we want to know how may
people to expect.
<http://celebratehackney.eventbrite.com/>http://celebratehackney.eventbrite.com/
If you are on facebook, then please sign up the event at
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120552934622314>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120552934622314
(and then invite your friends to attend so that people get to hear of
the day).
If you have a webpage or blog could you put a link on it to our website:
<http://www.hackneyunites.org.uk/>http://www.hackneyunites.org.uk/
We will also need volunteers on the day, to help with stewarding and
other tasks. If you want to help, please let us know.
Finally, you could simply forward this email onto friends who might be
interested
Thank you
Jane Holgate - chair of Hackney Unites
*Workshop sessions*
Workshop 1: Greening Hackney: an environmental forum
Gustavo Montes de Oca, Hackney City Farm
Peter Jones, Green Party
Chris Fraser, Transition Town Hackney
CHAIR: to be confirmed.
Workshop 2: Migrants, refugees, asylum seekers:
Ali Aksoy, Hackney Refugee Forum
Rayah Feldman, Hackney Refugee and Migrant Support Group
Cathy Bird, Sanctuary Pledge.
Jessica Kennedy, Citizens for Sanctuary.
CHAIR: Juan Camilo Cook, Migrants Rights Network.
Workshop 3: Life-long learning, skills and education
Soraya Patrick, Workers Education Association.
John Kennedy, University of the 3rd Age.
Mick Hadgraft, UnionLearn.
Cheryl Lim, Open University.
Workshop 4: Workshop Public services – the crisis to come
Bronwen Handyside, Keep NHS Public
Cathy Raey, Defend Council Housing
Matt Sellwood, Green Party
Gail Chester, Friends of Hackney Nurseries
CHAIR: Brian Debus.
Workshop 5: Save the Hackney Empire and the arts in Hackney
Roland Muldoon, Impresario and ex-director of the Hackney Empire.
Patrick Vernon, Every Generation.
Workshop 6: Workers Advice Project: providing organising support to
workers in Hackney
Leena Kumarappan, Working Lives Research Institute.
Arpita Dutt, Russell Jones and Walker Solicitors.
Clara Osagiede, RMT union organiser
CHAIR: Wilf Sullivan, TUC Race Relations officer.
Workshop 7: Policing and miscarriage of Justice
Celia Stubbs, Blair Peach campaign
Paul May, Sam Hallam campaign
Workshop 8: Question Time: what do Hackney residents want from
politicians after the election?
Matt Sellwood, Green Party.
Jennette Arnold, Labour Party.
Dawood Akhoon, Liberal Democrats
To be confirmed, Conservatives.
Workshop 9: Pride in Hackney
Thierry Schaffauser, GMB
Simon Leahy, Co-ordinator of the organising committee for Hackney Pride.
Stacey Halls, Opening Doors.
CHAIR: Ella Viera
Workshop 10: Elders in Hackney – challenges facing older people
Dot Gibson, National Pensioners Convention.
Shirly Murgraff, Older People's Reference Group.
Victor McAllister
CHAIR: David Holland.
Workshop 11: Workers Advice Project continued
Individual advice for workers with problems. Qualified solicitors and
barristers to provide advice.
Workshop 12: Community organising and voluntary action: time to get
political
Andy Benson, National Coalition for Independent Action.
Maurice Glasman, London Citizens
Wendy Pettifor, Hackney Law Centre
John Page, Hackney Unites
Workshop 13: Peace and War
Gareth Jenkins, Stop the War.
Pat Allen, CND.
Workshop 14: Struggles against racism and fascism in Hackney
Michel Vance Racism in Education
Monty Goldman,
CHAIR: Arpita Dutt.
Workshop 15: Youth in Hackney – challenges facing younger people
Sheila Suso-Runge, Teenlab Productions.
Joyce Daley, Black Parent Community Forum.
Richard, Congoleese Youth Group.
Oktay Sahbaz Day Mer.
CHAIR: Jeanette Collins, The Crib.
*Confrimed stalls*
Age Concern
CND
Day-Mer
Equity (trade union)
Every Generation
Hackney Council for Voluntary Service
Hackney Lib Dems
Hackney Link
Hackney Refugee and migrant workers support group
Hands Inc
Keep Our NHS Public
Labour Party
London Coalition Against Povertry
London Citizens
Labour Representation Committee
Morning Star
Open University
Quakers
Refugee Workers Association
Release
Sam Hallam Campaign
Southern and Eastern Region TUC
University of the Third Age
Woodcraft Folk
Workers Educational Association
Working Lives Research Institute
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Dr Jane Holgate
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY
Tel (w) + 44 (0) 20 7320 3029
Tel (h) 020 8802 0373.
Tel (m) 07960 798399
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.workinglives.org/staff/current-staff/jane-holgate.cfm
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